Questions tagged [kronecker]
Leopold Kronecker (1823-1891) was a German mathematician who worked on number theory, algebra and logic.
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Historical background with Weber and Kronecker's Jugendtraum
https://mathoverflow.net/questions/74073/the-first-complete-proof-of-the-kronecker-weber-theorem
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Why was Kronecker dissatisfied with Cantor's submitted paper?
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In 1874 Cantor published an article in Crelle's Journal which marks the birth of set theory. A follow-up paper was submitted by Cantor to Crelle's Journal in 1878 but already set ...
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Did Kronecker say that set theory is not mathematics?
I have frequently come across Kronecker's statement about set theory:
I don't know what predominates in Cantor's theory - philosophy or theology, but I am sure that there is no mathematics there.
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Did Kronecker attribute immutable origin to the integers?
The familiar quote is often incorrectly attributed to Kronecker directly. Actually a colleague of his named Weber claimed after Kronecker's death that Kronecker said this. I have doubts about this ...
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Kronecker vs Cantor — who won?
Now set theory is taught even to kids and it is the foundation of mathematics. Can we say that Cantor won?
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Why did Kronecker develop the "adjoining a root" construction?
Kronecker is generally credited with the formalization of "adjoining a root to $f(x)=0$". Nowadays it is interpreted as the quotient $K[x]/(f)$, where $K$ is some appropriate algebraic structure in a ...
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